I've only read a few posts in this thread, so I appolgise if these points had been covered already, but I just thought I'd throw in my two cents.....
Well, firstly, as for "what happens next", that question can be applied equally to the current "custom" ppc solutions, the only real difference being the buy in cost is a heck of a lot more obtainable by people if x86 was targetted. Now I know the often used arguement to this is that if people have an x86 machine they'll just use windows/mac osx/linux becasue (insert reason here), but I dont buy that. Personally Im a big amiga fan (all flavors) and have been since it's inception... if I want to use an amiga system I'll get ahold of the appropriate hardware to do so as I always have and I cant see why this would be different for other "amiga" fans apart from maybe part time tinkerers, but then they're hardly going to buy an expensive "custom" solution either. Additionally, I, as a lot of other people have a dedicated Windows machine besides my "amiga" systems (or Mac, or linux box depending on the person) to cover the few things I need/want from modern computing that amiga doesnt yet cover so again I'm hardly going to install Windows on my "amiga" hardware. As for those that had no x86 machine previously, why, after all this time would they suddenly switch to what theyve been avoiding all along? Anyway, at the end of the day I guess it doesnt matter, OS4.x is a ppc based system, as much demand as there is for it on x86 (as evident by the countless os4.x on x86 threads) it doesnt appear that it will happen. AROS is here, it's free and is progressing nicely. Hopefully with time the demand for OS4.x on x86 will dwindle because of AROS. As it is AROS can already exchange blows with OS4.x in terms of advantages.
